Obtuse Synonyms and Antonyms

ŏb-to͝os, -tyo͝os, əb-
Not sharp
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. dull
  2. round
  3. blunt
  4. greater than 90⅓⅓⅓⅓⅓°
  5. greater than 90⅓⅓⅓⅓⅓°;
Antonyms:
  1. sharp
  2. astute
  3. clever
  4. pointed
  5. shrewd

Words Related to Obtuse

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Obtuse Sentence Examples

  • People will start to question our grasp of reality, or think we are being deliberately obtuse.

  • One wonders why some previous critics and readers were so obtuse!

  • Only the hopelessly naïve or willfully obtuse can believe that these were the real motives for the war.

  • They provide a very powerful, but also rather obtuse, set of tools for finding particular words or combinations of characters in strings.

  • The first-named expounds the views of the author; the second is an eager and intelligent listener; the third represents a well-meaning but obtuse Peripatetic, whom the others treat at times with undisguised contempt.

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